​​From sugar to honey, a family saga

PROJECTS

Adele G. Dawson, photo by Susan Van Kleeck

The current writing project I am working on is s book about my grandmother Adele G. Dawson and family going farther back. While it will be based on true events I may fictionalize it for artistic purposes. First I have to do the reasearch, then I'll synthesize the material and let it unfold in the form that suits it best. For now I have a list of what I plan to include:

1. Before they came to America from France, what it was like in the homeland.​2. The voyages3. The landings4. The fortunes they found or didn't find5. New Orleans and what happened in Louisiana, the sugar business6. The other brother and the gold rush7. The New Orleans Descendants 8. Adele, herbalist, writer, and artist. Her family her reinvention in Vermont 9. Vermont10. Salvaging what sweetness we can at the end of the world, Beekeeping and the honey business